East Aceh Regency ( id, Kabupaten Aceh Timur) is a
regency in eastern
Aceh Special Region (''Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam'') of Indonesia. It is located on the island of
Sumatra
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. The regency covers an area of 6,040.60 square kilometres and had a population of 360,475 at the 2010 Census and 422,401 at the 2020 Census.
The regency borders the
Malacca Strait
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to the north-east, the city of
Langsa and
Aceh Tamiang Regency
Aceh Tamiang Regency ( id, Kabupaten Aceh Tamiang) is a regency in the east of Aceh province of Indonesia, bordering on North Sumatra Province to the east. It is located on the island of Sumatra. The regency covers an area of 1,957.02 square kil ...
to the south-east,
Gayo Lues Regency
Gayo Lues Regency ( id, Kabupaten Gayo Lues) is a Regencies of Indonesia, regency in the Aceh Special Region of Indonesia. It is located on the island of Sumatra. The regency was created in 2002 under Statute UU 4/2002 from the northern part of Ac ...
to the south, and
Central Aceh Regency,
Bener Meriah Regency
Bener Meriah Regency ( id, Kabupaten Bener Meriah) is a regency in Aceh Special District, Indonesia. It is located on the island of Sumatra. The regency covers an area of 1,941.61 square kilometres and it had a population of 122,277 at the 2010 ...
and
North Aceh Regency to the west.
Economy
This regency is rich in
petroleum
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, more so than the
North Aceh and
Aceh Tamiang regencies. Fishing employs many people in the regency but little of it is exported; people depend on it for food.
The main fishing centre in the regency is in
Idl
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Computing
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** IDL specification language, the original IDL created by Lamb, Wulf and Nestor at Queen's University, Canada
...
. The regency also has several food-plant based industries producing tofu,
tempeh
Tempeh or tempe (; jv, ꦠꦺꦩ꧀ꦥꦺ, témpé, ) is a traditional Indonesian food made from fermented soybeans. It is made by a natural culturing and controlled fermentation process that binds soybeans into a cake form. A fungus, ''Rhizopus ...
and sun-dried banana chips.
Some areas are under plantation exploitation for palm oil and rubber, although there is only one state-owned company (TPN I) operating in the area. Plantations also produce cacao and chocolate and in the
Lokop area iron ore and lead is mined.
Administrative districts
The regency is divided administratively into twenty-four
districts
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(''kecamatan''), listed below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census and 2020 Census.
[Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021.]
References
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Regencies of Aceh